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Anderson Banihirwe
I contribute to and maintain several libraries within the open source scientific Python stack, particularly around domain-specific geoscience (ocean / atmosphere / land / climate sciences) tools.
Education
B.S., (Computer) Systems Engineering
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Little Rock, AR
2018 - 2014
Professional Experience
Software Engineer
The US National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, CO
2020 - 2018
- Analyzed and visualized data for CATOS fish tracking project.
- Head of data mining project to establish temporal trends in population densities of Mysis diluviana (Mysis).
- Ran project to mathematically model the migration patterns of Mysis (honors thesis project.)
Software Developer Intern
Quansight
N/A
2018
- Worked on xnd, a library for refactoring of NumPy capabilities to low-level libraries and high level interfaces.
- Worked on integrating cuDF - GPU DataFrame Library with Apache Arrow Library
- Worked closely with a customer to port existing PostgreSQL-based ETL code base to Dask.
Data Science Intern
First Orion
Little Rock, AR
2018 - 2017
- Designed and built scoring, predictive models with Scikit-learn using First Orion’ s proprietary telecommunication data.
- Identified patterns and characteristics within First Orion’s data warehouses using Dask, Apache Spark, Pandas.
Research Intern
The US National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, CO
2017
- Cleaned/fixed Spark launch bash scripts that work with the LSF/PBS schedulers.
- Wrote spark-xarray, a ython package that integrates PySpark and xarray for Climate Data Analysis.
- Contributed Jupyter notebooks and scripts using Apache Spark to NCAR’s Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project (CMIP) Analysis Platform.